For all you romantics out there, a gift a day for “The Twelve Days of Christmas” will cost you $21,466 this year – up less than $400 from 2008. Of course if you are a “true” romantic and repeat the gifts for all the verses, that would be 364 gifts for a whopping $87,403!

The cost of the ”gift of the day” each of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is:

• A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Bird: $10 and Pear tree: $149.99 – down 27.3%
• Two Turtledoves: $55.98 – up 1.8%
• Three French Hens: $45 – up 50%
• Four Calling Birds: $600 – unchanged
• Five Gold Rings: $499.95 – up 42.9%
• Six Geese a-Laying: $150 – down 37%
• Seven Swans A-Swimming: $5,200 – down 6.3%
• Eight Maids a-Milking: $58 – up 33%
• Nine Ladies Dancing: $5,473 – up 15%
• Ten Lords a-Leaping: $4,413 – unchanged
• Eleven Pipers Piping $2,285 – unchanged
• Twelve Drummers Drumming: $2,475 – unchanged

Note to online shoppers: Ordering all these items online is no bargain! They will cost you $31,435 – $10,000 more than shopping locally.

Adapted from an email from Patty Street of National City Bank. National City is part of the PNC Bank family. See Christmas Price Index – PNC for more details about “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.

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